Healthy Big vs Skinny Orange Sea Star Comparison

[Samw]

Originally Posted by Delphinus

PS. Sam, what do these orange stars eat? Are they as fussy as the other linckia's? They look similar to linckias. I'm not sure I'm going to try another linckia until I have a much bigger tank, my burgundy linckia didn't seem to do well in my 72g.

Yes, they can easily be mistaken as Linkias as the author of the link above also states.

I don't target feed them and I've never watched them eat anything. They crawl on the glass a lot so they must be eating the film of algae. They seem easier to keep than Linkias and Fromias. I haven't been able to keep Linkias and Fromias alive for any length of time. Whereas with these, the first one I've had for 5 months so far and the other for 4 so far and they don't show any signs of rotting.